I think there are problems with porn. Not necessarily it’s existence but the type, violence levels and prevalence.
Go onto any site and look at how much of that porn is thinly disguised violence against women rather than both parties enjoying it. That’s a problem because it’s taking what were fairly niche activities and the idea that violence is normal mainstream. That has real life implications. We’ve had a spate of cases in the UK where people have been killed and the ‘just rough sex gone wrong m’lud’ defence has been used successfully. Look up the Natalie connelly case for example. She did like rough sex. But she was killed in a brutal prolonged assault with alcohol levels that would have rendered her incapable of consent or even standing. The guy shoved a trigger spray bottle into her vagina and ripped it out, causing an arterial bleed, for example. He beat her for hours and didn’t seek medical attention when she’d fallen/been thrown down the stairs md was dying.
The judge accepted that her blown out orbit was just her stumbling around drunk, and the guy got three years BECAUSE she had a historybofnliming rough sex. It later turned out he had previous for being a violent nutter with a history of violence against women. So what’s that got to do with porn? Well the climate of normalising violent sex is new - I honestly can’t think that twenty years back a jury would accept that a person consented to be beaten to death by a sexual partner. I think that’s linked to the prevalence and normalisation of violent porn. We’ve had a few of these cases recently and I always find them disturbing.
The availability as well is an issue. Pretty young kids to seeing some extreme stuff at an age when they arent able to deal with it. We have a lot of boys growing up with the idea that sex is something you to TO women, not WITH them. That’s not healthy.
The UK would be stupid to try to ban porn. That won’t work. Stopping violent nutcases killing their partners and using rough sex as an excuse would be good. As would some way of teaching kids that what they’re seeing isn’t reality.
I guess in a nutshell I don’t care what consenting adults do in private. I DO care about how the increased sexualisation of society has knock on consequences.
Actually thinking about it as well, the ‘no kink shaming’ stuff isn’t good either. Again, do whatever you want in private, I care not. You want to be a furry or beat each other with cheese graters? Crack on, just keep it indoors. But men acting out autogynephile fetishes in public? That’s a direct result of sexual liberalisation because people don’t want to be judgy. Drag queen storytime teller turning out to be a pedo? Yeah that’s happened because no one wants to look prudish and say ‘fuck no, stick to the Gruffalo and spot goes to the circus.’
Houston Public Library is apologizing after a man charged with child sex assault was allowed to entertain children at Drag Queen storytime.
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Porn in and of itself? Meh, whatever. Violent porn everywhere at the click of a button and people having to be sex positive about absolutely fucking everything? Nope.
